KDQOL-SF™ 1.3 Scoring Program (v2.0)
Copyright © UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services
Research, 2000.
11/1/2000
kdqol-v13-2-template.xls – template to use for entering your data.
kdqol-v13-2-sample.xls – example with 20 cases.
Instructions for use:
The KDQOL-SF™ scoring program (v2.0) is an Excel 97 spreadsheet consisting
of 5 sheets: RAW, CONVERT, SCORE, SCALE, and STATS and assumes a basic
knowledge of how to get around in Excel. It currently handles up to 1000
cases and with some small adjustments, can handle more.
RAW: all data entry is done here with each row representing a unique case.
There is room for the date of administration and a case ID plus each item
in the KDQOL-SF™. Rules have been set up to only allow valid data for the
KDQOL-SF™ items. Out-of-range values are met with an error message and an
opportunity to correct the value. Missing or invalid data defaults to the
missing value ‘.’ which is necessary so that these cases are handled
properly in subsequent computations.
CONVERT: static table that lists items from the KDQOL-SF™ and how they get
rescored.
SCORE: an intermediate table between RAW and SCALE. It is a dynamic table
that shows how the data from RAW was rescored using the rules in CONVERT.
SCALE: computes and displays scale scores for each patient.
STATS: computes and displays descriptive statistics for KDQOL, SF-36, and
SF-12 composite scores across all patients.
Note that when printing any of these sheets you must adjust your print
area (File/Print Area) to reflect the number of cases you have. The
template program is currently set up to print 20 cases.
Some details in computations:
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The symptoms scale reflects the average of the 12 kidney disease
symptom items. Item 14L should only be answered if the patient is on
hemodialysis and item 14M should only be answered if the patient is on
peritoneal dialysis. In some cases patients give answers to both
items. In our scoring program, we take the most extreme response of
the two and use that in the computation of the symptom scale. We feel
that this will ensure we obtain the intended response.
NOTE: Earlier version used the least extreme. This modification was
made for v2.0.
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Sometimes the patient will not follow the sexual activity item skip
properly (item 16). Here they may answer I16=1 (no), but go on and
respond to items 16a and 16b. In this case, we assume that they
answered the stem question correctly and we go on and recode I16a and
I16b to . (missing).
03/29/2005: Fixed a typo above – number of kidney disease symptom items.